In 1939, Semyon and Valentina Kirlian, a Russian electrical engineer and his biologist wife, discovered coronal discharge photography and dubbed it 鈥淜irlian photography鈥 鈥 believing that these photos could provide psychic insights. 鈥淎ura photography鈥 鈥 as it鈥檚 now widely 1a known 鈥 is a specific type of photography and printing linking instant-film camera to charged metal plates containing biofeedback sensors. Jack Bowman is a studio portrait photographer interested in the revealing properties of aura imagery 鈥 at once visually compelling and conceptually ambiguous, with greens denoting healing and blues connected with empathy. Bowman references new age subcultures, with an air of the ethereal and immaterial.
Jack Bowman
